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SubjectRe: GIT head no longer boots on x86-64


On Wed, 15 Oct 2008, Jiri Slaby wrote:
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> Users usually do
> is_vmalloc_addr(a) ? vfree(a) : kfree(a);
> Even there it makes more sense to me.

Umm. No it doesn't.

That is exactly _wh7y_ "is_vmalloc_addr()" exists. But we sure as hell
don't ever want to trigger on modules for that.

If you think that "is_vmalloc_addr()" should trigger for any kernel
virtual address, why not just make it do so, then? And _name_ it so.

Names are important. In fact, naming is often _more_ important than the
implementation is. And that means that the implementation should follow
the naming, or the implementation is wrong.

Linus


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